FloraTrace is launching new insurance coverage for importers facing unforeseen expenses due to enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, it said in a March 4 news release. Offered through its subsidiary Rezylient, the coverage will be triggered by receipt of a UFLPA detention notice, with covered losses potentially including storage of a detained entry, attorney fees, consultant fees, demurrage, drayage fees, exam fees, and extra costs and expenses including supply chain tracing subject to agreement by underwriters, Rezylient said on its website. The insurance may also be paired with FloraTrace’s origin testing and verification services, providing “financial protection against unforeseen detentions and disruptions in the supply chain, while also offering importers a proactive tool for risk management,” the news release said.
Whole garlic cloves in brine imported from China by Roland Goods aren't subject to an antidumping duty order on fresh garlic from China, the Commerce Department said in a March 1 scope ruling.
The European Council and Parliament reached a deal on a new set of rules to ban imports suspected of being made with forced labor, including how the ban will be enforced and how the bloc will investigate and penalize violations.
CBP didn't prematurely suspend liquidation of two entries prior to the beginning of an Enforce and Protect Act investigation, the agency said in a newly released ruling. The ruling, dated Jan. 3, denied a protest from Crude Chem Technology, which had argued that CBP was required by law to extend liquidation on the entries, not suspend it.
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commissioner Kimberly Glas, calling e-commerce "a superhighway of the Wild West," asked witnesses at a hearing on Chinese exports and product safety if de minimis is a major contributor to unsafe products.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and 40 other House Democrats are asking Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas "to crack down on the de minimis trade loopholes allowing cheap fast-fashion products to flow into the U.S."
CBP reminded members of the trade community that starting March 1 the agency will require self-certification statements to be uploaded to the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) for non-industrial diamonds with a weight of 1.0 carat or greater, diamond jewelry and unsorted diamonds, in a CSMS message on Feb. 29. The Office of Foreign Assets Control banned Russian diamonds of those types in February to comply with an executive order signed in December that prohibits the importation of diamonds, fish and seafood if they were produced "wholly or in part" in Russia, CBP said (see 2402080081 and 2312260061).
The Commerce Department is set to exempt more safes from its antidumping and countervailing duty orders on metal lockers from China (A-570-133/C-570-134), it said in a notice announcing the initiation and expedited preliminary results of a changed circumstances review.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 19-25:
The Court of International Trade on Feb. 26 issued an amended decision in a customs case on the tariff classification of five categories of chrome-plated plastic automobile parts after initially deciding the case Dec. 18. The new decision adds a discussion of axle covers, the fifth category of goods, finding them to fall under Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading 8708 pursuant to General Rule of Interpretation 1.